Nwbinspector

Fixes

* Add safer retrieval of `subject_id` for _in vitro_ protein filtering. [433](https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/nwbinspector/pull/433)

Fixes

* Use cached extension namespaces when calling pynwb validate instead of just the core namespace. [425](https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/nwbinspector/pull/425)

Improvements

* Added automatic suppression of certain subject related checks when inspecting files using the "dandi" configuration that have a `subject_id` that starts with the keyphrase "protein"; _e.g._, "proteinCaMPARI3" to indicate the _in vitro_ subject of the experiment is a purified CaMPARI3 protein.

New Checks

* Added `check_rate_is_not_zero` for ensuring non-zero rate value of `TimeSeries` that has more than one frame. [389](https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/nwbinspector/issues/389)

Fixes

* Fixed issue in `check_empty_string_for_optional_attribute` where it would not skip optional non-`str` fields. [400](https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/nwbinspector/pull/400)

* Support for Python 3.7 has officially been dropped by the NWB Inspector. Please use Python 3.8 and above. [380](https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/nwbinspector/pull/380)

Fixes

* `check_time_interval_time_columns` now only checks for `start_time` with `is_ascending_series`. [382](https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/nwbinspector/pull/382)

* `is_acending_series` no longer asserts series to be strictly monotonic. [374](https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/nwbinspector/pull/374)

Pending Deprecation (API)

* To reduce ambiguity of the new intermediate workflow calls in the API, `inspect_nwb` will be deprecated in the next major release. It is replaced by either `inspect_nwbfile` (applied to a written file on disk) or `inspect_nwbfile_object` (an open object in memory). [364](https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/nwbinspector/pull/364)

New Checks

* Added support for new options to `subject.sex` (`XX` or `XO`) conditional on the `subject.species` being either "C. elegens" or "Caenorhabditis elegens". [353](https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/nwbinspector/pull/353)

Improvements

* Added an intermediate workflow to the main `nwbinspector` call pattern, named `inspect_nwbfile_object`. [364](https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/nwbinspector/pull/364)